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  07-01 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part One: The Iron Rod of Jesus 07-02 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Two: Narrow Mindedness 07-03 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Three: Changing Things 07-04 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Four: You Are Your Own Reaping 07-05 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Five: Falling into Place 07-06 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Six: Almost Hopeless? 07-07 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Seven: Helping, Not Hurting 07-08 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eight: The Most Miserable People On Earth 07-09 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Nine: 100% 07-10 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Ten: Choosing Pastors 07-11 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eleven: How Not To Be Happy 07-12 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twelve: What You Are Known For 07-13 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirteen: Controlling Your Body 07-14 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Fourteen: What Really Matters 07-15 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Fifteen: You Have To Sin? 07-16 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Sixteen: Need The Bible? 07-17 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Seventeen: Knowing What Time It Is 07-18 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Eighteen: Self-willed 07-19 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Nineteen: A World Like You 07-20 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty: The Mind Of Christ, the Servant of God 07-21 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty One: Second Opinions 07-22 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Two: Don’t Blame the Liar 07-23 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Three: Always Pray 07-24 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Four: Salvation 07-25 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Five: Who Is Who 07-26 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Six: Getting the Point 07-27 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Seven: Bad Places 07-28 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Eight: Recognizing God’s Voice 07-29 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Nine: Our Righteousness 07-30 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirty: Leaking Joy and Strength 07-31 Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Thirty One: Only One Real Victim

 

Thought for the Morning
7-23

Prayer Meeting Notes from Rebekah, Part Twenty Three:
Always Pray

“About four years ago, I put a piece of notebook paper in my Bible on which to write down things said during the meetings that really stood out to me.”
Rebekah Joy

“Never quit praying until you get what you want from God.”

Jesus told a parable which made the point that “men ought always to pray and never to faint.” It is good to persevere in prayer for the things God has promised His children.

Paul prayed three times for God to take away his “thorn in the flesh”. When God refused, saying only “My grace is sufficient for you; my strength is made perfect in weakness”, Paul was satisfied. He was satisfied with God’s clear answer, and he began to rejoice in the very thing that he used to pray about. He felt that just to hear from God was such an honor that whatever God said to him was good enough.

In his old age, my father was going through a time of suffering and was praying with the saints for healing. I heard him say, “Heal us, God, or tell us why not.” He would have been satisfied with any clear answer from God. That prayer from my father reminded me of Paul, who was praying for deliverance but was completely satisfied with another response – because it came from God.

Always pray. God will answer in His time. Jesus said so. But while you are praying, ask for the faith to believe and be satisfied with whatever God says.